Color Hues

This is our color wheel from last week, and I said I was going to go into more depth about it.

A color wheel is your friend. It will show you what matches with what and what colors will look good on you.

I recently painted my sun porch... I had comment after comment on my face book about how did I get the colors right? HUES

The rings of the color wheel are HUES, you can combine any color hue with the same hue of a different color.

So I can do the greens with the plums as long as they are of the same hue.

If you cant grasp hues from a wheel, you can at Wal-Mart! if you go to the paint swatches



If you look down the strip of paint swatches, you can see how one color becomes the next. if you are painting and you want to do a dual color room as my porch is, you simply pick out a color you like then buzz along the swatches in the same location until you find the next color you like.



Color designers do this with the wheel. Its smaller and more compact and well you don't have to have a ton of swatches. That's how the rug balances so wonderfully, as you can see, the rug has yellow the lime green and a TEAL. Wait! Yellow and green sure, they are next to each other on the wheel but teal?

Here is the wheel again, find the yellow that matches my porch. Move to the left of it and you will find my lime green, then you skip over a green and there it is the TEAL. Now I chose not to use teal accents in my sun room, I wanted the look of spring. But I could have gone with teal as well.

I love this room I love the colors, but I cant wear them. But that's OK I can still enjoy the room.

The same goes for your closet, if you have a teal skit, you can wear a purple sweater with it provided they are of the same hue.


Or even nail polish for that matter, I did this konad stamp a while back the two colors are the same hue. After you start looking for hues they are easier to spot.

Now that you understand what your season is, and what colors are going to look best on you and how to match separates by hue, I think it is time for all of us to go shopping and buy a really great looking outfit!

oops!

As we talked about color analysis over dinner dishes the other night, my daughter pointed out I was not a summer, Yes I still need cool colors, But that I was a winter. Of course I argued with her about it. After all I just took that quiz and well it had to be right didn't it? It came out as a summer and that was what I was back when I learned all this stuff when I was 18....

I did not even realize it when I took my color quiz last week. Michelle made me think of the colors in my own closet and made me retake the quiz again. and she was right, I'm a winter. There were a few questions that I didn't have the answer right on, my skin is more fair than pink, my eyes are more blue-gray than green-gray, and my skin burns easily rather than burns then tans.

It just goes to show, if you have determined that you are either warm or cool but you aren't getting the results from the scheme you think you should, have someone help you take the test. What you are thinking you look like might not be reality.

It also explains why I hated the way I looked in that lilac shirt I just drug out of my closet. it made me look tired and washed out. EWW! unlike the picture i have above, see how rosy my skin looks? that is the brightness adding contrast to my skin.

I would like to add, that I am these posts are just pointers to help guide you to looking your best, if you have trouble there are professionals out there that you can HIRE to do you color analysis for you. But I personally would rather go to the store and try on lots of different colors to see what colors look great on me.

Warm Colors

Isn't this a great picture of Drew Barrymore? This is a CLASSIC example of a warm skin tone! I have many clients that are this coloration and I think it is the most beautiful coloration!

{If you don't know what your season is, you can go HERE and get it.}

"Springs" and "Autumns" have warm coloring. Some signs of warm coloring are red or golden hair, golden brown eyes and golden undertones to the skin.

This is the warm Palette. Autumns tend to be what my daughter has gotten me calling "Gingers" red hair freckles peaches and cream completions. Springs are also warm colors. Drew above is an autumn, Lys below is a spring.

Let me give you a demo on this....

This is one of my teen friends actually they both are but lets look at the girl...

obviously shes very pretty, and ready for prom this picture was taken outside with the blue sky as a background and her sky blue dress. I will not say she doesn't look good in this dress because that just isn't the case, Lys looks great.

But lets look at a snap of her in everyday clothes with a different background.

Do you see how the rosy background makes her skin come alive? That is because shes surrounded by warm colors. It isn't that she wasn't pretty for prom, but shes stunning in rose.

That is what your own personal color scheme can do for you. you CAN look movie star gorgeous, figure out your color season and surround yourself with those colors.

Even in the photo of Drew at the top, the background is a warm color. That's a photography trick, make your subject look better by having the correct color as a backdrop.

Next we are going to go into cross over colors and the color wheel. But we will have Monday Mani's first....

Cool Seasons...

We are going to talk about clothing and the colors you need to wear. If you haven't figured out what your season is, you can still go HERE and get it.

Winter and Summer... Yea I know I was confused by that as well! Summer isn't cool. But the color season is.

and here is why....

These are cool colors from icy pink to wine and plum. but they all have "blue" undertones. no real warmth. by warmth I look for colors that look like sunshine colors. yellow tones, oranges, reds. those are warm. We will talk about warms tomorrow.

These are the cool shades. the ones on the left are more "icy" ones than the ones on the right. The ones on the right are more of the use of winters. the icy ones are for Summers.

But Winters can "get away with" the icy ones, BUT they wont look as strikingly wonderful on her (or him) as the deep Burgundys, wines, plums, navy, teals, and forest green.

As I said yesterday you will normally gravitate toward your own color scheme, but as you look through your closet you may find (as i did) you have that one outfit that just doesn't fit in but you love it and for some reason you always get complements when you wear it. You love it, it must look nice on you, so by all means keep it.

There are SOME summers and winters that are on an edge of the warm and cool scale. there is a way to determine that. And I know it has to do with a color wheel


But I have yet to really understand this part, since it did not directly effect me. I will be reading up on this and may do a post on contrast later.

For now you summers and winters, go into your closet and look at the colors and the combination of colors you have! you may have a favorite patterned skirt that is on the warm side, but it has a blouse or sweater that matches well and is on the cool side of the color wheel. you want the cool colors next to your face. So that is why that works for you.

What season are you....

Seasons? no I am not talking about what season you like, I am talking about your coloration.

This was one of the things i learned about in the class I took at our community college. If you can get your season figured out, You can always look awesome!

It is known as "seasonal" color analysis, which places individual coloring into four general categories: Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn.

"Winters" and "Summers" have cool coloring. Some clues that a person has cool coloring might include ash tones in the hair, grey-blue eyes and pinkish undertones to the skin.

"Springs" and "Autumns" have warm coloring. Some signs of warm coloring are red or golden hair, golden brown eyes and golden undertones to the skin.

Knowing what season you are will aid in many things... what colors look best on you. those would be the colors that extenuate. your natural colorings. (you probably already gravitate toward those colors) but it also aids in your makeup choices.

As an example since i already knew my season I found a simple quiz and took it... to make certain it was correct. I will darken the parts that do not apply to me personally.....

this was my result {BTW its correct}

What Seasonal Color Group Are You?

Your Result: Summer

Summer Skin Tone: Cool or blue undertone Skin color: Porcelain (very fair) Pink Rose Beige (tans easily) Ruddy with pink or red Beige with hint of sallow (yellow) Hair color: Ash or gray blonde - usually deepens with age Smokey blonde - dishwater Smokey brown - with a gray cast that looks dull and lifeless in wrong colors Dark brown and brown with auburn highlights Ash gray, silver gray Eye color: Blue, clear icy blue, gray blue, dark blue, aqua, and blue with white flecks Pale gray Gray green, clear green with yellow radiating from pupil Hazel - green/brown or blue/brown Soft brown -rose brown or gray brown Note: This person will usually burn then tan. There is a softer look compared to Winter

This is where you can find the quiz i took

Go ahead and take it and then we can go into what will look great on you!